Officer K (Ryan Gosling) of the Los Angeles Police Department is on the trail of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a surviving member of the blade runners who were tasked with finding and silencing android replicants.

Blade Runner 2049 comes 35 years after the original film broke new ground for the science fiction genre, and is largely keeping its plot shrouded in mystery.

"I'd never been on anything more secret than The Walking Dead until I was on Blade Runner - to the point where they offered me the job out of the blue and I said, 'I need to read the script' and they sent me 20 pages before my character arrived, and they sent me 20 pages after my character had gone.

"It was on an app that I could only open on one device, I couldn't take a screenshot, I couldn't save it and they said, 'You've got 36 hours' and I had 36 hours with it and then... it was gone."